Commissioner Derrick Simmons and Island Councilman Clyde van Putten.
ST. EUSTATIUS–St. Eustatius Commissioner Derrick Simmons and Island Councilman Clyde van Putten intend to seek an audience with the General Assembly of United Nations (UN) on what they considered a violation of UN Charter and Resolutions by the Dutch Government. The two petitioners have written to Peter Thompson, UN General Assembly Chairman about their concerns and need for an audience.
In accordance with the competence of the General Assembly to decide whether or not a non-self-governing territory has attained the full measure of self-government referred to in Chapter XI of the Charter of the United Nations, the two representatives said an urgent audience with the General Assembly was needed to present their case and elucidate on “the consistent and documented violations of the people of St. Eustatius’ right to self-determination and a full measure of self-government by the Government of the Netherlands.”
They also want to discuss the steps which the Statia Government has taken and continues to take to attain a full measure of self-government within the realm of the Dutch Kingdom, including having a draft constitution ratified by the Island Council, the execution of a feasibility study, and the establishment of closer relationships with nations in the region.
“Regrettably, the Government of the Netherlands has persistently refused to engage the Government of St. Eustatius in a constructive dialogue based on mutual respect and equality over the years,” the duo stated in their letter.
The Dutch Government continues to trample international law, and has unleashed a persistent campaign of increasingly restrictive higher supervision, financial intimidation, and direct interference in the functioning of the legitimately elected Statia Government by civil servants deployed by the Dutch Government on the island and its people, they said.
Despite this behaviour by the Dutch Government, the two remain open to dialogue en route to a peaceful and legal solution of the matters affecting the island.
Source: The Daily Herald https://www.thedailyherald.sx/islands/66460-simmons-van-putten-to-seek-audience-with-un-assembly
Once there came a scientist to St. Eustatius. He wanted to proof that family relations explained more of the differences in wealth and power among the Statian people than political alliances.
At first he was welcomed on the island. But as soon as he found proof that the islands elite consists of both followers of the Dutch colonial policies and of the protesters against this, this revealing made him an unwanted alien. The ones who needed the medal of protester did so to compete in the same game for political positions. And thus all was for the money!
Elite people mostly use non democratic ways of persuasion to scare people. So he left the island, afraid for his life.
And therefore nothing was exposed or changed.
What has changed since then?
Excavations at Golden Rock have restarted recently.
The same kind of archeologists as before.
The same treatment of human remains, the same destructive way of excavating.
The earlier report and the successful attempt to compromise two members of the St. Eustatius Afrikan Burial Ground Alliance, Xiomara Balentina and George Berkel, by letting them participate in the Statia Heritage and Research Commission (SHRC) has not made people learn from this Caesarian tactics.
And now Derrick Simmons is part of the puppet government.
I thought he was coordinator of Ubuntu Connected Front?
I thought he was a member of the St. Eustatius Afrikan Burial Ground Alliance?
How deep are your principles founded?
Who will be next to be compromised? Kenneth Cuvalay?
And so Toet, and her protège Francis (and not the other way round!) find a way to ‘develop’ the island to the white Dutch wishes, sell all properties to white foreign investors and make it almost impossible to reverse these moves.
Hello! Anybody listening? Our island will be sold completely very soon! And our so-called leaders are involved in this too!